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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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Lifeboat Ethics.(Poem)
December 01, 2008

Self-portrait at Fifty.(Poem)
December 01, 2008

In connection with the foregoing, one watches with keen interest the p...
December 01, 2008

It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twis...
December 01, 2008

Protestant Christendom.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
December 01, 2008

Children's books, lost and found.(Opinion)
December 01, 2008

What to give a First Things reader.(Opinion)(books as gifts)(Book revi...
December 01, 2008

Wrapping up 2008.(Opinion)(books as christmas gifts)(Children's review...
December 01, 2008

Effable.(Poem)
December 01, 2008

A governing Shari'a.(Islam and the Secular State)(Book review)
December 01, 2008

A little organization of great importance is Christians for Fair Witne...
December 01, 2008

Herewith a word of wisdom from Alasdair MacIntyre of the University of...
December 01, 2008

There are books about how to successfully pretend that you have read b...
December 01, 2008

Jeffrey Sachs tends to be rather passionate in the expression of his o...
December 01, 2008

This is who we are.(While We're At It)
December 01, 2008

I've never seen the program, but a reader tells me that, on a televisi...
December 01, 2008

Daniel Burke of the Washington Post covers a miniature brouhaha over a...
December 01, 2008

I see that Canada's National Gallery, located in Ottawa, is advertisin...
December 01, 2008

If Cafardi's is a counsel of despair and surrender in the face of unsp...
December 01, 2008

Kmiec and Cafardi are by no means alone.(While We're At It)(Brief arti...
December 01, 2008

In all that you've probably read about the financial crisis, I expect ...
December 01, 2008

Here's something both charming and a bit strange.(While We're At It)(B...
December 01, 2008

I don't know whether it is true that we are all being googled into idi...
December 01, 2008

A bright young seminarian of my acquaintance is excited by his discove...
December 01, 2008

Forgotten history.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
December 01, 2008

Documentation: a reply to Richard Dawkins.(Critical essay)
December 01, 2008

Reconciling East and West.
December 01, 2008

Natural law revealed.(Viewpoint essay)
December 01, 2008

The forgotten story of postmodernity.
December 01, 2008

In defense of the sovereign family.(Viewpoint essay)
December 01, 2008

Women's work.(Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral)(B...
December 01, 2008

Annihilating nihilism.(God and the Between)(Book review)
December 01, 2008

The excellence of limits.(Book review)
December 01, 2008

Dostoevsky's question.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Relig...
December 01, 2008

How you pose the question has everything to do with the answer you're ...
December 01, 2008

"The French may think that master narratives have had their day but in...
December 01, 2008

Will there ever be peace between Israel and the Arabs?(While We're At ...
December 01, 2008

Academic fashions, especially in the humanities and most especially in...
December 01, 2008

Faithful readers know about the problems with the New American Bible (...
December 01, 2008

This year is the tenth anniversary of the passage of the International...
December 01, 2008

What do you do with all those back issues of First Things?(While We're...
December 01, 2008

For thirty-five years, Gallup has been asking about confidence in the ...
December 01, 2008

I didn't see it, so ABC's The Secret Life of the American Teenager may...
December 01, 2008

This Gerald McDermott is a very productive fellow.(While We're At It)(...
December 01, 2008

The second part of the big study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religio...
December 01, 2008

It had a very short shelf life in the news but is the subject of livel...
December 01, 2008

"To blame religion for the wars conducted in its name is like blaming ...
December 01, 2008

In the same book, Stephen Barr responds to a paper by Leon Kass.(While...
December 01, 2008

A subscriber who ran out of summer reading material resorted in desper...
December 01, 2008

"The reality for Catholic and evangelical academics, as for Catholic a...
December 01, 2008

"I am quite aware of how ephemeral literary assessments can be, but in...
December 01, 2008

Our friends at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute have put out a ve...
December 01, 2008

There is doubt, and then there is doubt.(While We're At It)(Brief arti...
December 01, 2008

Was Shakespeare Catholic?(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
December 01, 2008